PS to restore the underwater photos to a beautiful state

Underwater photography because in the water to the light control will be very difficult, and the impurities in the water barrier, the film will compare the gray, contrast is not strong. So the original film will look slightly inferior, this is very normal, we only need to pass the later technical simple adjustment of a few steps can make the film back to a beautiful state. Sina Weibo: @Zeng wide, micro-credit public platform: ovip_65917946.

This is also a question I like to say. Pre-filming + late modification is a complete photographic process, filming and later is a inseparable whole, only to learn one of them is not able to take a beautiful picture.

Official start:

First use camera raw to open the image, select the Lens correction panel, check to enable the lens profile correction, the film lens correction operation. Because the shooting time with a wide-angle lens, distortion and dark angle will be more serious, we must first to correct these problems.

After correcting the error of the lens, you can begin to decorate the photo.

Back to the basic panel, adjust the white balance, at this time I am not doing corrective white balance operation, but in this place to the overall color of the picture to adjust. The character skin has a distinctly partial color, so I add a very high tonal parameter to let the skin return to normal complexion.

Then adjust the picture overall tone. The adjustment of these parameters is mainly to enhance the contrast of photos, so that the photo is more translucent.

To add clarity to your photos, also in order to make the photos look more clear translucent (because the underwater film texture details are weaker, so I added a strong clarity, a slight loss of some of the high light and shadow details, but I do not feel that the overall aesthetic, the details will not be too tangled.) )

Saturation, of course, should also be synchronized to restore the photo because the water barrier to gray color.

Select HSL Gray Panel, the screen in the local color adjustment, the general idea is to make the green water into a dark blue, so that the color of the skin back to normal complexion state.

In the effects panel, add a little dark angle to the photo. Mainly in order to highlight the middle figure, a film want to look bright, you have to go to the secondary part of the crush. Instead of always trying to brighten up the picture. Adding a dark corner is a good way to solve it.

At this point, the camera raw adjustment is over, you should be able to see that the photos have changed a lot, and then we will enter the PS in the details of the photos further processing.

The first step is to open liquefaction on the shape of the figure to decorate, I will not elaborate, the previous post has said a lot of this content. Note that the underwater film because of lens distortion, water perspective and so on, the body will look very awkward, easy to show very fat, must carefully adjust the face and limbs.

Finish the body, of course, still need to deal with the skin, so that the skin looks smooth and clean. The method is the same as dealing with normal films on the ground. I've said a lot before, and I don't dwell on it.

Then you have to deal with the picture of the lighting problem, first to highlight the main light source, in the model head position to make a gradient of the selection, with the curve to brighten, so that the picture light feeling more intense.

Make the effect of the beam, make a selection shown above, use the color scale to illuminate, simulate the light through the surface of the water under the feeling of the underwater.

Add color to the photo, use a brush to select some warm colors that are slightly colder, such as purple, magenta, and so on. Under the screen, and then add a soft light pattern to the color layer, which adds some color to the lower part of the screen. Make the picture more colorful.

The same method, to the light source area painted orange, so that the screen color rich at the same time, in the light of the screen and the dark color of the warm and cold contrast. Further highlight the face area of the main person.

Then you can finally deal with the overall tone of the picture. Create a new gradient color adjustment layer, select the classic blue to orange gradient, add a soft light mode to the adjustment layer, and then reduce the opacity according to the screen.

This step, a lot of people like to use, in fact, give the picture of the bright part of a warm, dark to give a cool color. To make the color level of the picture more rich.

Class often and students said, a film in the bright, dark, middle tone must have different color tendencies. A piece of film will look good. And the warm and cold contrast is the most commonly used method.

Finally, the color of the water to retrieve some of the colors through the optional color. Make the water a little bit more dark. This is the feeling of underwater.

So the final step of image processing, sharpening.

Complete.

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• PS Image Processing